Worth County took down Albany 60-32 Thursday to set up a third match with Stanberry in Saturday’s Stanberry Tournament championship. In the game, Regan Allee got a season high with 22 points. Needing 20 to get to 1,000 points, she went on a scoring burst in the third quarter and got it with a 3-pointer at the 3:05 mark of the period off a transition assist from Megan Cassavaugh.
The Tigers had every reason to expect a battle from Albany, which is an up and coming team in the GRC. The Warriors had played Platte Valley tough earlier in the season in Albany and still had Gabby Newman. Albany had given Worth County everything they could handle in Albany last year before Anna Gladstone went into one of her bezerk modes and carried the Tigers on her shoulders past the green shirts and scored a career high 28 points.
But no bezerk was needed for Friday’s game, in which the Tigers scored the most points anyone had scored against Albany up to that point, while holding the Warriors, who normally score in the 40’s, to their third lowest point total of the year. They held Newman to 12 points; Kristin New had two blocks, both hard stuffs on Newman trying to get to the rim. Albany tried to isolate Anna Gladstone and get her fouled out, but she only got three, and swatted away three shots from people trying to take it at her in the paint. And Allee, despite three first half fouls, was hitting her shots and making everything else easier for the Tigers; three other gold shirts had nine or more. Allee was finding open people when defenders were keying on her; she had 8 assists for the night.
Regan Allee drove and kicked out to Kaylee McElvain to start the scoring; then, Megan Cassavaugh got a steal and took Newman to the hole, dropping one over her to make it 4-0. The teams traded blows until late in the first, when Regan connected and Kristin New got a putback. Gabby Newman scored off a steal, but Anna hit a rare 15-foot pullup at the buzzer to put the Tigers up 15-7.
Newman hit a 3-pointer to start the second, but Regan Allee answered with one of her own, Anna Gladstone scored from inside off a pass from Regan Allee, Regan hit Kaylee McElvain in the high post, and then Jenna Smith hit Anna Gladstone in the post to make it 24-10.
Gladstone picked up her second foul at that point, but after Paige Brown hit free throws to bring Albany back to within 27-13, Kaylee McElvain hit a 3-pointer, Kristin New hit a free throw after taking Newman to the hole, and Allee hit from the top of the key to make it 34-13.
Albany has had some impressive wins this year; they have beaten North Andrew twice, along with quality wins over Pattonsburg and surprising King City and threw a scare into Stanberry before losing by two. Their coach, Brooke (Hogue) Crawford, has wiped out a lot of big deficits at Savannah, Mound City, and Albany. They started chipping away, getting the deficit down to 36-20 early in the third, and Gladstone got to three fouls. But then Kaylee McElvain got loose in transition and got a pass from Regan, and then Allee got to 1,000 with a flourish, getting a 3-point play in transition, scoring off a drive after Kristin New got her a pass, and getting a 3-pointer in transition after Megan Cassavaugh got her the ball to make it 46-20.
Newman countered with a 3-pointer for Albany, but then Kaylee McElvain got a backdoor layup and Kristin New got loose in transition, got a pass from Jenna Smith, and ran over Newman, a shot which knocked her out of the game. Kristin hit the ensuing free throws to make it 50-23. Consecutive baskets from Sierra Anthony cut it to 54-30 with 2:59 in the fourth, but then Jenna Smith hit back to back jacks to give Worth County a 30 point lead at 60-30.
Regan Allee had 22 points for the Tigers. Kaylee McElvain 11, Anna Gladstone 10, Kristin New 9, Jenna Smith 6, and Megan Cassavaugh 2.
Anna Gladstone had 3 blocks, Kristin New had 2, and Merrideth Spiers had 1.
Kristin New had 7 boards. Kaylee McElvain had 6, Regan Allee and Jenna Smith 5, Anna Gladstone 4, Jill Hardy 3, Megan Cassavaugh 2, and Merrideth Spiers 1.
Regan Allee had 8 assists. Megan Cassavaugh had 5, Jenna Smith 3, and Kaylee McElvain, Kristin New, and Anna Gladstone 1.
Anna Gladstone had 7 tips. Kaylee McElvain and Regan Allee had 3, Jill Hardy, Kristin New, and Jenna Smith had 2, and Merrideth Spiers had 1.
Megan Cassavaugh had 3 steals. Anna Gladstone, Jill Hardy, Jenna Smith, and Kristin New had 2 each. Regan Allee had 1.
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